Manuscript·34 CDF art. 175·30 November 1961

Note on the main results of the Enkomi excavation season, 6–30 November 1961, with three pages of sketchesJacques-Claude Courtois

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 13 of manuscript 34 CDF art. 175 (Note on the main results of the Enkomi excavation season, 6–30 November 1961, with three pages of sketches), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 175, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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ENK. 61 • A steatite cylinder seal, with figures processing with quadrupeds, illustrates the style of the period of the Sea Peoples (Iron I), pt. 643, inv. 18). • Two Egyptian scarabs were discovered during the campaign 1961: the finest, in stone, with three divine or royal figures, was recovered from the zone most rich in idols of t. c, zone 136, pt. 668, inv. 16; the second scarab, in blue paste, with indeterminate animal, inv. 21, comes from the quarter of the artisans, north of the E-W road of the Temple Area.

- New evidence of the importance of the bronze industry at Enkomi: in very many places in the two areas of 1961, deposits and beds of copper slag were uncovered and this in strata corresponding to all the phases from Br. Moyen III to Fer I. A particularly impressive heap of slag was removed from the pit or silo, pt. top. 618, zone 100 (over 50 kilos). In zones 130, 131 and 132, there were true beds or mattresses of slag on floor which were uncovered, at - 0 m 83, pt. 692 (Iron I) and at - 1 m 55, below pt. 665/658 (Late Bronze C R. II/III) [cf. schémas stratigraphiques].

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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